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HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  Sept.  2U  1862.     Read  first 
and  second  times,  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 


A.   BILL 

To  be  entitled  An  Act  to  exempt  certain  persons  from- miKta* 
ry  duty,  and  to  repeal  An  Act  entitled  "  An  Act  to  exempt 
certain  persons  from  enrolment  for  service  in  the  army  of 
the  Confederate  States/'  approved  twenty-first  April, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two. 

1  Section  1 .    The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of 

2  America  do  enact,  That  all  persons  who  shall  be  held 
-3  unfit  for  military  service  by  reason  of  bodily  or  mental 
4  incapacity,  or  imbecility,  under  rules  to  be  prescribed  by 
•5  the  Secretary  of  War  ;  the  Vice  President  of  the  Confed- 

6  erate  States  ;  the  officers,  judicial  and   executive  of  the 

7  Confederate  and  State  governments,  except  Postmasters 

8  not  nominated   by  the  President  and  confirmed   by  the 

9  Senate,  and  assistants  and  clerks  in  any  other  Postoffice 
10  than  the  General  Postoffice,  and  except  such  State  officers 
]  1  as  the  several  States  may  have  declared  by  law  to  be  lisu 


12  ble  to  militia  duty,  or  may  hereafter  be  excepted  by  the 

13  several  States  :  the  members  of  both  Houses  of  the  Con- 

14  gress  of  the  Confederate   States  and  of  the  Legislatures 

15  of  the   several  States  and  their  respective  officers ;  all 
1 G  clerks  in  the  offices  of  the  Confederate  and  State  govern- 

17  ments  allowed  by  law  ;  all  pilots  and  persons  engaged  in 

18  the  merchant  marine  service  ;  the  president,  superinten- 
'  19  dents,  conductors,  treasurer,  chief  clerk,  engineers,  man. 

20  agers,   station  agents,   section  masters,  two  expert  track 

21  hands  to  each  section  of  eight  miles,   and  mechanics  in 

22  the  active  service  and  employment  of  railroad  companies, 

23  not  to  embrace  laborers,  porters,   and  messengers  ;  the 

24  president,  general  superintendent,  and  operators  of  tele- 

25  graph  companies,  the  local  superintendent  and  operators 

26  of  said  companies,  not  to  exceed  four  in  number  at  any 

27  locality  but  that  of  the  seat  of  government  of  the  Con- 

28  federate  States  ;  the  president,  superintendents,  captains, 

29  engineers,   chief  clerk,  and  mechanics  of  all  companies 

30  engaged  in  river  and  canal  navigation,  and  all  captains  of 

31  boats   and   engineers    therein    employed  ;    all   foremen, 

32  pressmen  and  journeymen  printers  employed  in  printing 

33  newspapers  having  at  least  five  hundred  bona  fide  sub- 

34  scribers,  the  public  printer,  and  those  employed  to  per- 


35  form  the  public  printing  for  the  Confederate  and  State 

36  Governments  ;  every  minister  of  religion  authorized  to 

37  preach  according  to  the  rules  of  his  sect,  and  in  the  reg- 

38  ular  discharge  of  ministerial  duties,  and  all  persons  who 

39  have    been   and   now   are    members  of  the   Society  of 

40  Friends,  and  the  Association  of  Dunkers  in  regular  mem- 

41  bership  in  their  respective  denominations  ;  all  physicians 

42  who  now  are,  and  for  the  last  five  years  have  been,  in 

43  the  actual  practice  of  their  profession  ;  all  shoe-makers, 

44  tanners,   harness-makers,  saddlers,  blacksmiths,  wagon- 

45  makers,  millers,  and  their  engineers,  mill-wrights  skilled 

46  and  actually  employed  at  their  regular  vocation  in  the 

47  said  trades,  whilst  so  actually  employed  :  Provided,  Said 

48  persons  shall  make  oath  in  writing  that  they  are  so  skilled 

49  and  actually  employed  at  the  time  at  their  regular  voca- 

50  tion  in  one  of  the  above  trades,  which  affidavit  shall  only 

51  be  prima  facie  evidence  of  the  facts  therein  stated  ;  all 

52  superintendents  of  public  hospitals,  lunatic  asylums,  and 

53  the  regular  nurses  and  attendants  therein,  and  the  teach- 

54  ers  employed  in  the  institutions  for  the  deaf,  dumb  and 

55  blind  ;    in  each  apothecary  store  now  established  and 

56  doing  business,  one  apothecary  in  good  standing  who  is 

57  a  practical  apothecary  ;  superintendents  and  operators  in 


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58  wool  and  cotton  factories  who  may  be  exempted  by  the 

59  Secretary   of   War  ;  all   presidents   and   teachers  of  col- 

60  leges,   academies  and  schools  who  have  been  regularly 

61  engaged  as  such  for  two  years  previous  to  the  passage  of 

62  this  Act,    and   theological  seminaries  ;  all  artisans,   me- 

63  chanics  and  employees  in  the  establishments  of  the  gov- 

64  eminent  for  the  manufacture  of  arms,  ordnance,  ordnance 

65  stores,  and  other  munitions  of  war,  who  may  be  certified 

66  by   the   officer   in   charge   thereof  as  necessary  for  such 

67  establishments  ;  also  all  artisans,  mechanics  and  employees 

68  in  the  establishments  of  such   persons  as  are,  or  may  be, 

69  engaged  under  contracts  with  the  Government  in  furnish- 

70  ing  arms,  ordnance,  ordnance  stores,  and  other  munitions 

71  of  war :  Provided,  That  the  Chief  of  the  Ordnance  Bu- 
v72  reau,  or  some  ordnance  officer  authorized  by  him  for  the 

73  purpose,  shall  approve  of  the  number  of  the  operatives 

74  required  in  such  establishments  ;  all  persons  employed  in 

75  the  manufacture  of  arms  or  ordnance  of  any  kind,  by  the 

76  several   States,  or  by  contractors  to  furnish  the  same  to 

77  the  several   State  Governments,  whom  the  Governor  or 

78  Secretary  of  State  thereof  may  certify  to  be  necessary  to 

79  the  same  ;  all  persons   engaged   in   the   construction   of 

80  ships,  gun-boats,  engines,  sails,  or  other  articles  necessary 


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81  to  the  public  defence,  under  the  direction  of  the  Seere- 

82  tary  of  the  Navy  ;    all  superintendents,   managers,   me- 

83  chanics    and    miners    employed  in  the    production    and 

84  manufacture  of  salt  to  the  extent  of  twenty  bushels  per 
Sb  day,   and  of  lead  and  iron,   and  all  persons  engaged  in 

86  burning  coke  for  remelting   and   manufacture  of  iron, 

87  regular  miners  in  coal  mines,  and  all  colliers  engaged  in 
SS  making  charcoal  for  making  pig  and  bar  iron,  not  to  em- 
89  brace  laborers,  messengers,  wagoners  and  servants  un- 

00  less  employed  at  works  conducted  under  the  authority 

0 1  and  by  the  officers  or  agents  of  a  State  ;  and  one  person, 

92  either  as  owner  or  overseer,  on  each  plantation  on  which 

93  one  white  person  is  required  to  be  kept  by  the  laws  and 

94  ordinances  of  any  State,  and  on  which  there  is  no  white 

95  male  adult  not  liable  to  do  military  service  ;  and  such- 

96  other   persons  as  the  President   shall   be   satisfied,    on 

97  account  of  justice,   equity  or  necessity,  ought  to  be  ex- 

98  emptcd,  are  hereby  exempted  from  military  service  in 

99  the  armies  of  the  Confederate  States  :    Provided,    That 

100  such  numbers  of  the  militia  of  any  State  as  have  been 

101  called  out  and  mustered  into  the  service  of  said  State  by 

102  the  Executive  thereof,  employed  and  necessary  to  repel 

103  any  actual  invasion  of  said  State,  shall  also  be  exempted  : 


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104  Provided,  That  whenever  such  invasion  shall  have  been 

105  repelled  or  otherwise  shall  have  ceased  to  exist,  the  ex- 

106  emption  hereby  declared  shall  expire  :  Provided  further, 

107  That  the  exemptions  hereinabove  enumerated  and  granted 

108  hereby  shall  only  continue  whilst  the  persons  exempted 

109  are  actually  engaged  in  their  respective  pursuits  or  occu- 

110  pations. 

1  Sec.  2    Be  it  further  enacted,   That  the  act  entitled 

2  "An  Act  to  exempt  certain  persons  from  enrolment  for 

3  service  in  the  armies  of  the  Confederate  States,"  approved 

4  the  twenty-first  of  April,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two, 

5  is  hereby  repealed. 


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